Water-supply apparatus for water-closet tanks



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T. MOHUG'H. WATER'SUPPLYAPPARATUS FOR WATER CLOSET TANKS..

No. 449,944. Patented Apr. 7, 1891.

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, T. M'oHUGH. WATER SUPPLYAPPARATUS FOR WATER CLOSET TANKS. No. 449,944. Patented Apr. 7, 18941 WITNEIEEES;

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"UNITED STATES PATENT '()EFMJLE..-..

TIMOTHY MOHUGH, OF XVAKEFIELD, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE SMITH 8: ANTHONY STOVE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 4

WATER-SUPPLY APPARATUS FOR WATER-CLOSET TANKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of- Letters Patent No. 449,944, dated April '7, 1891.

Application filed October 1.7. 1889. Serial No. 327,352. (No model.)

To all 1071,0122, it may concern; fixed to the tank by means hereinafter de- Be it known that I, TIMOTHY MCHUGH, of scribed. One end of the lever is connected \Vakefield, in the county of Middlesexand by a rod or link g with the valve b, and the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain other end is connected by a rod, chain, or 5 new and useful Improvements in l'VatenSupother suitable connection with a handle or 55 ply Apparatus for Water-Closet Tank-s, of pull or other means employed to move the lewhich the following is a specification. 7 ver in the direction required to raise the This invention has for .its chief object to valve. The under side of the lever c is proprovide simple and effective means for holdvided near the pivot cl with a curved recess; [a ing open the valve of a water-closet supply- 0, formed to receive the detent hereinafter 6o tank until a suitable wash has been effected, described. Said detent is composed of a leand then automatically closing said valve. ver i, pivoted at j to the cars a 6 under the le- The-invention consists in the combination ver 0, and provided at one end with a roll c", of a supply-tank, a valve, and a float-lever journaled in cars 2 2, and at the other end therein, a bracket or support attached to the with a weight 3. On the end of the lever "i 65 tank, a valve-operating lever pivoted to said having the roll t" is a lateral arm 4, to which bracket and provided with a recess in its lower is secured by a set-screw m a wire rod n, which edge, a weighted detent-lever pivoted to the is bent to extend horizontally under the floatbracket and held by its weightin contact'with lever 13, which controls the cock 0, that admits the lower edge of the valve-lever, one end of water to the tank. 70 said detent-lever being adapted to automat- The operation of the parts above described ically engage the recess of the valve-lever is as follows: When the valve is closed, the when the latter is raised, and thereby hold the under side of the valve-lever c bears against valve open, a laterally-extending arm on the the roll 7." of the detent-lever 11, as shown in detent-lever, and a connection between the full lines in Fig. 2, thus holding the detent- 75 said arm and the float-lever,wherebysaid delever against the tendency of its weighted tent-lever is displaced during the subsidence end to raise the roll t". \Vhenthe valve-lever of water in the tank. Vhen the valve is c is moved to position to open the valve, the closed, the pivoted lever holds the weighted roll t" is permitted to move upwardly until it detent away from its normal position, so that enters the recess 0', as shown in dotted lines So when the pivoted lever is again moved to open in Fig. 2. The form of said recess is such the Valve the detent will move automatically that when the roll is held in engagement with to position to engage the pivoted lever and it by the weighted end of the levert'the valvehold the valve open. lever 0 cannot move to close the valve, butis 5 Of the accompanying drawings, forming a held in the position shown in dotted lines, 85 part of this specification, Figure 1 represents thus keeping the valve open until force is apa top view of a tank provided with my implied to disengage the roll 2" from the recess provements. Fig. 2 represents a section on c. Said force is applied by the float-lever 19 line 00 m, Fig. 1, looking toward the top of the while the latter is falling in consequence of 40 latter. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view the subsidence of the water in the tank. 90 of the automatic detent and apart of the piv- When the falling lever 12 bears upon the rod oted lever. I n, it draws down the roll-carrying end of the The same letters of reference indicate the lever 1. through said 10d, thus disengaging the same parts in all the figures. roll 1/ from the recess of the lever c and re- 5 In the drawings, a represents a water-closet leasing said lever and the valve, which there- 5 supply-tank, and 1) represents the valve that upon closes. It will be seen, therefore, that controls the escape of water from the tank, the valve is held open long enough to give a said valve being of any suitable construction. wash of considerable duration. The duration 0 represents a lever, which is pivoted at d of the wash may be regulated by adjusting to cars or lugs e e on a plate or bracket f, afthe rod n vertically in the arm 4. I00

15 represents a U-shaped metallic frame or bridge attached to the top of the tank above the valve g. Said frame is provided with a series of seats a, each bounded on two sides by lugs c v, and each provided with a hole to receive an attaching-screw. Each seat u is formed to receive the inner end of the plate or braoketf, and said seats radiate or extend in different directions, so that said plate or bracket can be arranged in various positionsthat is to say, it may extend lengthwise of the tank, as shown in the drawings, or it may extend crosswise or diagonally. It will be seen, therefore, that considerable latitude is given in the arrangement of the Valve-operating devices, so that the same maybe adapted (.0 Va rying requirements and circumstances.

The weighted detent-lever i is preferably provided with two arms 4', projecting in opposite-directions, so that the rod n may be placed at either side of said lever.

I do not limit myself to the employment of the roll 'i on the deten't-lever, but prefer the same on account of the ease of operation resulting from its employment.

Instead of the bent rod 01, the connection between the detent-lever and float-lever may be a chain or any other suitable device.

The float-lever 13 may be an independent lever, used only for the purpose of operating the detent-lever instead of being'con'nected with the supply-cock.

I claim The combination of a supply-tank, a valve 1) and a float-lever 1) connected therewith, a bracket or support attached to the tank, a valve-operating lever c,pivoted to said bracket and provided with a recess 0 in its lower edge, a weighted detent-lever also pivoted to said bracket and having cars at one end, and a roll journaled in said ears and held by the weight of said detent-lever in contact with the lower edge of the valve-lever, said roll being adapted to automatically engage the recess 0 of the valve-lever when the latter is raised, and thereby hold the valve open, a laterally-extending arm 4 on the detent-lever, and a bent two subscribing witnesses, this 8th dayof October, A. D, 1889.

TIMOTHY MCHU v Vitnesses:

C. F. BROWN, A. D. HARRISON. 

